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News media is addiction

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Mr. Lalit modi does a simple looking tweet in less than 140 characters and whole bunch of characters fall out of closet. Mr. Shashi Tharoor uses the tweets to garner public sympathy. He has to go away because the so called sensible opposition party BJP of India demands his resignation based on a tweet of an individual. A lady comes into the scenario and complicates the matter for her knight and the knight has to go back to his masses and addresses them in the quiet of his state. The government is forced to order IT Raids because the news media is harping and creating a molehill out of a simple tweet. The final of the IPL match is done. Mr. Modi is standing on the prize distribution dais quoting Bhagavata Geeta and preaching fearlessness. Media breaks news that BCCI has sacked him and given a 22 point chargesheet against him. The poor guy was claiming to head the BCCI governing council meeting and his head rolled. I was worried in mo...

india is out of 20-20 world cup

so much for the late nights. so much for the advertisers. so much for the hopes of billion people dreams. Luckily no more dreamy days and no more experiences of walking like a ghost at daybreak. Your eyes will no more be heavy with loaded sleep. There looked to be a casualness in the chase. Once win is now for lifetime. I hope we realize that winning is for lifetime. One six is not enough. There has to be many once in a while. When you know that you are wasting the hope on the crease then you should donate your wicket and take a chill pill in the dugout. A cricket crazy country will need to do a real soul searching to find something more interesting to talk to now.